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  • Laphonza ButlerPolitics

    Gavin Newsom names Laphonza Butler to Dianne Feinstein’s open Senate seat, fulfilling pledge to appoint a Black woman

    By MIchael R. Blood and The Associated Press
  • Dianne FeinsteinPolitics

    Dianne Feinstein, oldest sitting senator, elected in 1992’s ‘Year of the Woman,’ dies at 90

    By MIchael R. Blood, Mary Clare Jalonick, and others
  • woman with curly hair smilingPolitics

    ‘The California dream is dying,’ says former Google and Facebook exec who’s running to replace Dianne Feinstein

    By MIchael R. Blood and The Associated Press
  • Gavin Newsom/Ron DeSantisPolitics

    Gavin Newsom rips into his right-wing alter ego, Ron DeSantis: ‘He is a weak candidate, and he is undisciplined and will be crushed by Donald Trump’

    By Steve Peoples, MIchael R. Blood, and others
  • A boat motors by as the Bidwell Bar Bridge is surrounded by fire in Lake Oroville during the Bear fire in Oroville, CaliforniaFinance

    California’s insurance market wobbles as two major companies pull back over wildfire risks and construction costs

    By MIchael R. Blood and The Associated Press
  • River Herber, an employee of Preserve Oregon, a marijuana shop in Salem, Oregon, rolls a joint on Jan. 31, 2023. Along the West Coast, which has dominated U.S. marijuana production from long before legalization, producers are struggling with what many call the failed economics of legal pot…a challenge inherent in regulating a product that remains illegal under federal law. (AP Photo/Andrew Selsky)Lifestyle

    Marijuana growers are between a rock and a hard place as they face oversupply and interstate commerce woes: ‘I’m tired of running a failing business’

    By Gene Johnson, Andrew Selsky, and others
  • Karen BassPolitics

    LA’s homeless crisis is so bad that the new mayor wants to spend a record $1.3 billion on fighting ‘the myth that people do not want to come inside’

    By MIchael R. Blood and The Associated Press
  • Dianne FeinsteinPolitics

    As mutinous House Democrats call for the oldest member of Congress to resign, she asks to be taken off a committee, temporarily

    By MIchael R. Blood and The Associated Press
  • Gavin NewsomHealth

    California Gov. Gavin Newsom targets ‘market disruption’ with 10-year deal to make cheap insulin

    By MIchael R. Blood and The Associated Press
  • Senator Dianne Feinstein, a Democrat from California, speaks during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing with Twitter whistleblower Peiter Zatko in Washington, D.C., US, on Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2022. Zatko’s first public appearance since his explosive allegations against the social media giant comes as lawmakers and regulators seek to rein in or break up tech companies. Photographer: Eric Lee/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesPolitics

    Dianne Feinstein, the oldest member of Congress, won’t run again for Senate in 2024 after a groundbreaking six-decade career

    By MIchael R. Blood and The Associated Press
  • Gavin Newsom, governor of California, speaks at an IBEW Local 6 event during the gubernatorial recall election in San Francisco, U.S., on Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2021. Californians are heading to the polls Tuesday to decide whether to oust Newsom in only the second gubernatorial recall election in state history. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesPolitics

    California Gov. Gavin Newsom is the second governor in U.S. history to defeat a recall

    By Kathleen Ronayne, MIchael R. Blood, and others
  • Gavin Newsom, governor of California, speaks during a campaign event at Long Beach City College in Long Beach, California, U.S., on Monday, Sept. 13, 2021. Polls show Newsom prevailing in the Sept. 14 recall, beating back a mostly Republican field of challengers. Photographer: Bing Guan/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesPolitics

    Why is California having a recall election? Here’s why voters are choosing whether to keep their governor

    By MIchael R. Blood and The Associated Press
  • It was supposed to be a long weekend of festivals and music culminating on April 20, or 4/20, the code for marijuana’s high holiday. Instead, it has been reduced to an online replica because of stay-at-home orders to curb the pandemic.Retail

    4/20 dud: Coronavirus steals the cannabis industry’s Black Friday buzz

    By MIchael R. Blood and The Associated Press
  • Cannabis samples at a lab in Oakland, CA.Health

    California Considers Calling THC in Pot a Risk to Moms-to-Be

    By MIchael R. Blood and The Associated Press
  • marijuanaRetail

    California Puts Illegal Pot Shops (and Shoppers) on Notice

    By MIchael R. Blood and The Associated Press